Small Great Things

by Jodi Picoult

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. —JAMES BALDWIN

how love has nothing to do with what you’re looking at, and everything to do with who’s looking.

It just goes to show you: every baby is born beautiful. It’s what we project on them that makes them ugly.

Corinne is one of those people for whom life is just the space between crises.

“You’re destined to do small great things,” she told me. “Just like Dr. King said.” She was referring to one of her favorite quotes: If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Now I know: adulthood is a line drawn in the sand. At some point, your child will be standing on the other side.

Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.

There is no such thing as a fact. There is only how you saw the fact, in a given moment. How you reported the fact. How your brain processed that fact. There is no extrication of the storyteller from the story.

Equality is treating everyone the same. But equity is taking differences into account, so everyone has a chance to succeed.”